The Emperor's New Clothes makes no sense

[Sojufueled]

You know the story, right? What the hell is he thinking? Let's operate under the premise that the Emperor believes stupid people can't see his clothes. Then why does he go out in public? Either he has entirely too much faith in the general public, or he's okay with being seen naked by some portion of the kingdom. You'd think the kid would shout, "The Emperor's naked!" and ole' Emps would think, "Found the dumbass."

[_Eclips3_]

9 hours ago, Sojufueled said:

You know the story, right? What the hell is he thinking? Let's operate under the premise that the Emperor believes stupid people can't see his clothes. Then why does he go out in public? Either he has entirely too much faith in the general public, or he's okay with being seen naked by some portion of the kingdom. You'd think the kid would shout, "The Emperor's naked!" and ole' Emps would think, "Found the dumbass."

I thought it was a song? 

[Sojufueled]

On 2024-04-10 at 1:17 AM, _Eclips3_ said:

I thought it was a song? 

Nope. It's a folktale.

[Raanab]

On 2024-04-09 at 2:38 AM, Sojufueled said:

Let's operate under the premise that the Emperor believes stupid people can't see his clothes.

I think the point also includes all the people around buying in to that concept. That everyone is pretending to see the fine clothes because no one wants to call it out and possibly reveal themselves a fool. So sort  of a peer pressure type thing of people acting foolish to fit in.

[(PSN)Caerith]

The point of the story isn't to be believable.  Nobody believes that a talking frog carried a talking scorpion across a river, but it's certainly easy to remember its lesson.